As condições da (des)igualdade na inserção da mulher no mercado de trabalho no Nordeste

Abstract

This research intends to analyze the main determinants of gender inequality in the Northeast region. We seek to understand how the labor market is configured and how gender inequality is present in the Northeastern socioeconomic scenario, understanding them because of the capitalist economic development model and considering the historical structural conditions, political and cultural peculiarities of the regional reality. As for the methodological procedures, we used bibliographic and theoretical research, as well as the survey of secondary data, which provided elements to perform the qualitative analysis of the information. Initially, the bibliographic review served to briefly characterize the economic development model in Brazil, after 1930, and its developments in the regional context. Still, in the theoretical dimension, we sought to understand the place of female labor in the capitalist economy. Then, an analysis of the indicators of employment, occupations, income and socioeconomic characteristics of the population was made through secondary data collected from official research institutions, such as IBGE and the Secretariat of Labor of the Ministry of Economy. It was found that the research dimensions used to materialize the existence of gender inequality and the condition of female workers in the Northeast. It was possible to recognize the occurrence of situations that cause the precariousness of female labor, which is justified by the conservative economic structure of the Northeast, in order to define the weaknesses of the labor market; the reproduction of the macho and patriarchal culture; and the capitalist mode of production, which reproduces and recreates inequalities from the sexual division of labor.